Enzo Avitabile
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Napoletana -
$17.99
(cdRoots# fce-5378)
On this 2009 recording, Avitabile reconnects with simplicity to the sources of sounds; work-songs and villanelle, songs that are unedited, unfiltered, etched in the cement of the city, with eyes fixed on the past and a heart that breathes in the scent of the future. Avitabile always creates new music born from an old art, full of feeling and always innovative. Listen
La Ciapa Rusa
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Diario di Bordo -
$16.99
(cdRoots# fce-rusa)
One of Italy's most influential bands is back on CD in a performance of songs that spans their 20 year career, recorded in their official farewell concert recorded live in Casale Monferrato, July 12th 2003. Essential listening.
Tendachent
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Ori pari -
$17.99
(cdRoots# fce-tendachent)
Tendachent is a piedmontese band born in the Spring 1997 as a natural evolution of one of the main folk-revival bands from Northern Italy, La Ciapa Rusa. The original band boasted a twenty-year career, 7 records and several concerts all over the world. Apart from Maurizio Martinotti, who founded and leaded La Ciapa Rusa, two more members from the same group joined Tendachënt. Three young and skilled musicians complete the new band. Part of Tendachënt's repertoire consists of modern versions and interpretations of La Ciapa Rusa's tracks.
Musicanti del Piccolo Borgo
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Fiore de tutti i fiori -
$17.99
(cdRoots# fce-musicanti1)
A reissue of the most important tunes from the successful album Fiore de tutti i fiori, which was published in 2000 by Teatro del Sole (now out of print). The CD contains some of the finest melodies from the tradition of the Italian regions of Lazio and Molise, in excellently arranged versions performed by Musicanti. A must have recording!
Paola Lombardo-Donata Pinti-Betti Zambruno
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So sol d'amarti alla follia -
$17.99
(cdRoots# fce-follia)
These three protagonists of the folk music scene are perhaps the three voices that best represent female singing in Piedmont. Their different experiences did not prevent them from finding cohesion and consistency both in the themes they chose and their way of performing. Together they blend the tradition of popular songs with evocative, original arrangements.
I Musetta
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La vulp la va 'n tla vigna (ES5315 -
$17.99
(cdRoots# fce-musetta)
This CD is a celebration of traditional sounds from Italy's so called 4 Provinces. For more than 20 years Musetta is the first name we can associate to the particular music of this region. Led by the piffero and the musa, their music is always a learning experience for many folk musicians.
Le Vija
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La cadrega fioria (ES5309 -
$14.99
(cdRoots# fce-vija)
Some of the best musicians of Piedmontese traditional music play together in Le Vijandagrave;: it was the Regional Administration of Piedmont who commissioned the creation of this band from Turin's FolkClub and EthnoSuoni. The group joins experienced musicians and young, clever ones. The repertoire gives an example of the various kinds, styles, cultures and languages of a Region rich in musical traditions. Basically acoustic, Le Vijandagrave;'s sound includes modern interpretation of the traditional repertoire, both for the refined use of instruments and the sophisticated arrangements.
Ariondessa
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Compagne grame -
$17.99
(cdRoots# fce-5384)
With former members of noted Italian ensembles (Tre Martelli, La Ciapa Rusa, Ombra Gaja), the band is bound to be in demand. This 2009 release offers up the mix of style and musicianship one would expect from such a pedigree. This chapter in the discography of the Piedmontese folk band comprises a unique calling card card of their region, with a new and original repertoire and personal, refined arrangements.Listen
Talèh
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Ratapuntu -
$17.99
(cdRoots# fce-5379)
Ratapuntu is a term used in Sicilian to indicate the seam made with the sewing machine to obtain a finished edge. A metaphor of the artistic texture of this album: just like the accurate and delicate making of a tailored piece, Talèh honours the experience with this boisterous ensemble from Ragusa, who have represented the popular tradition of their land for over ten years. Listen
Suonabanda
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La bella è entrata in ballo -
$17.99
(cdRoots# fce-5382)
This CD marks the return on the musical scene of one an historic bands, deeply involved in the Italian folk-revival in the 70s. They have brought back old songs that are part of Italian Apennines’ musical tradition as well as new pieces. At heart of the project are songs in celebration of the month of May. Listen
Veziana
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Alba auba aurora aurore -
$17.99
(cdRoots# fce-5381)
Veziana, which means 'joyful' in medieval Occitan, is a French-Pyrenean group whose music is a crossroad of styles. From the Middle Ages to modern times, and on either side of the Pirénéus, a deep rich vein of sonorities, musical practices and emotions have undergone a process of assimilation and exchange. Veziana is also a sound in itself, characterized by ensembles of voices, viola da gamba, qanoun, harp, hurdy-gurdies, bag-pipes and percussion. Listen
Andrea Capezzuoli e Compagnia
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Tutto per amore -
$17.99
(cdRoots# fce-5380)
Here he comes again, exactly a year after the publication of “Suonato coi piedi.” Their 2009 disc was designed to accompany dancing sessions but also dedicated to those who would rather wander with a musical ensemble that crosses the seas, docking at many ports, some very close and familiar, other remote and enchanting. Capezzuoli and his company of Italian musicians explore France, French Canada, England, Italy, the Mediterranean and more with voices, melodeon, organetto, saxophones and guitar. Listen
Orchestra di Porta Palazzo
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Orchestra di Porta Palazzo -
$17.99
(cdRoots# fce-5377)
An album that visits music from all over the world from the unique urban viewpoint of Turino, a paradigm of a multicultural society that finds no other equivalent in Italy. Fourteen musicians, from Tunisia, Algeria, China, Cuba, Senegal, Nigeria, United States, Mauritius Islands and Italy give life to a work that is variegated and kaleidoscopic and that has the energy of a live concert and the elegance of a studio production. Listen
La Moresca Antica
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Migrare -
$12.99
(cdRoots# fce-5373)
Here's a new chapter in the research into traditional maritime music: following 'Marinaresca' and 'Li Turchi alla marina,' the leaders Umberto Mosca and Angelo Maffezzoli along with their artistic crew give us a fully ripened work with the themes of men and music and migration by sea. Special guests include Lucilla Galeazzi and Jack Coutts.
Andrea Capezzuoli e Compagnia
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Suonato coi piedi! -
$14.99
(cdRoots# fce-5371)
Virtually unknown in Italy, the traditional music of Quebec is a kind of mélange of Scot-Irish music with French songs. Alongside the fiddle, mandolin, guitar and piano, its typical instruments are the melodeon, the oldest kind of accordion, which is still found in Quebec and Louisiana, and... the musicians' feet, which make for a powerful rhythmic background in wild dances. Andrea Capezzuoli, who has always been very fond of this music, has collected a handful of classics of this genre and made a fizzy but at the same time accurate CD despite what its title would suggest (an old Italian refrain says that you do bad if you do using your feet).
A3
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Trasudando -
$14.99
(cdRoots# fce-5372)
This work has roots deep in the tradition, in the culture where women and men, elders and children, briganti and cumpari have all told their stories. This band from the Province of Bari, with their maiden discographic voyage, sails along the infamous A3, the motorway connecting Salerno and Reggio Calabria, one of the most conspicuous symbols of a cultural and territorial panorama that clashes with the pride and the desire for redemption of southern Italy.
E.Y.F.O.
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Enfants terribles -
$8.99
(cdRoots# fce-eyfo)
The European Youth Folk Orchestra are the 'Enfants terribles'. This is a live recording of the first European youth orchestra of traditional music.
Meikenut
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Rev -
$10.99
(cdRoots# fce-meik1)
A great new band that mixes tradition and innovation. The record presents Piedmontese traditional melodies in new arrangements
Asteriskos
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Amanca Luna -
$14.99
(cdRoots# fce-asteriskos)
Giancarlo Parisi, one of the best known Italian players of the zampogna (bagpipes), friscalettu and other wind instruments of Sicily, returns with a new band. The Sicilian roots and acoustic sensibility are merged with contemporary arrangements, heeding history but always looking forward.
Pivari Trio and Compagnia del Maggio di Frassinoro
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La Terra Che Mi Porta -
$14.99
(cdRoots# fce-pivari05)
Canti sacri popolari di tradizione emiliana - Sacred songs both traditional and 'popular' (ie, folk tunes apart from the formal church liturgy) from Emiliano, Italy, performed by the instrumental group Pivari Trio and vocalists from Compagnia del Maggio di Frassinoro.
A Fil de Ciel
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A Fil de Ciel -
$14.99
(cdRoots# fce-ceil)
The pure air of the Occitanian valleys pervades the music of this new Piedmontese band. Their debut album blends traditional and modern sounds, making a new contribution to the native music from this strip of Europe tucked between Italy and France. Special guest Riccardo Tesi adds his two-row melodeon.
Enrico Negro
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Rosso Rubino -
$14.99
(cdRoots# fce-negro)
A sound classical training and long-standing activity in folk music are the basic elements of this refined Piedmontese guitar player. Compagnons Roulants, Tendachënt, Dòna Bèla are just some of the musical projects where the sound of his guitar isevident. For his solo debut, Negro gathered round him several friends, all of them well-known folk musicians, to bring his vision into reality.
Tandarandan
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Epata - la musica delle stagioni -
$14.99
(cdRoots# fce-tandar)
These musicians are devoted to ethno-musical research and interpretation, with the goal of revitalizing the traditional repertoire of the area between the Lunigiana (northern Tuscany) and southern Liguria. Music is played with hurdy-gurdy, baghet (kind of bagpipe typical of the valleys of Bergamo), flutes, and various string instruments.
Carlo Salemi
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A sud dell'anima -
$14.99
(cdRoots# fce-salemi05)
Salemi's 2002 recording, Hybla, was centered on his virtuosity on friscalettu. 2005 is time for a more complete work, emphasizing the versatility of this great Sicilian artist. Here Salemi proves himself not only to be a gifted musician but also a fine composer, singer and refined arranger.
Terrae
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38° parallelo instabili terre -
$14.99
(cdRoots# fce-terrae)
With its focus fixed to the south of the 38th parallel as it crosses Italy, the debut recording by Terrae compagnia di musiche popolari rejoins the threads of an ancient cohabitation, exploring its own memory and placing it alongside adjacent cultures and musical traditions. The result is traditional yet innovative music, where popular melodies from Sicily, Andalusia and the Maghreb resound within modern environments, bending classical instruments to popular expressive needs, decomposing familiar musical worlds and recomposing them in a personal manner.
Viamedina
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Via medina -
$14.99
(cdRoots# fce-viamedina)
Via Medina is a street near the port in Naples, a borderline between the city and the sea, a meeting-point of different cultures and people. Once, in the nearby alleys, there were a few nightclubs where tangos and tarantellas, blues and tammurriate, jazz and popular Neapolitan songs were played and mixed together. Now that the clubs are gone, the Via Medina gets new life in this musical project. Starting from the dialect, melodies and instruments of the Neapolitan tradition, Viamedina takes various roads to give new perspectives to an already rich heritage of ancient memories.
Ariondassa
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In Cerca di Grane -
$14.99
(cdRoots# fce-arion1)
Traditional music and songs of the Piedmont by an ensemble whose musicians have played with some of the most important bands of the region (Tre Martelli, Ombra Gaja, La Kinkerne, La Ciapa Rusa)
Pinti, Zambruno, Cardinali, Biollati, Malafatto
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noi siam nati chissa quando chissa dove -
$14.99
(cdRoots# fce-noi)
Noi siam nati chissà quando chissà dove is music from a film commemorating the 60th aniversary of liberation from the viewpoint of the province of Piacenza. Four great artists join together to make this musical history come to life: the voices of Betti Zambruno, Pier Carlo Cardinali and Donata Pinti, and Silvano Biollati (guitar) and Gianpiero Malafatto (tuba, flute and trombone).
Aes Dana
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Frontiera -
$14.99
(cdRoots# fce-aesdana)
After many years of silence, one of Italy's best known Celtic music interpreters returns with a new recording. Guided by Giuseppe Leopizzi They are now making a dynamic mixture of Celtic and Mediterranean sounds. The band of voices, harp, guitar, cittern, bouzouki, violin, flutes and saxophone is joined by special guests Paddy Keenan (uillean pipes), Mairtan O'Connor on accordion, and other musicians from across the musical spectrum.
Betti Zambruno and Bartavela
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Cante Bergera (ES5319) -
$14.99
(cdRoots# fce-bartavela)
An extraordinary female string sextet busy rtoire inspired to the Teresa Viarengo's heritage. Upon every string, Betti Zambruno gives an example of her ability in playing the piedmontese vocal repertoire.
Trio Contempo
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Live au Folkclub (ES5321) -
$14.99
(cdRoots# fce-contempo)
The powerful sensuality of tango mixed to the fascination of a female trio with accordeon, guitar and cello. Recorded at the well known club in Turin, this is the first live album for this young but very skilled ensemble, interpreting the repertoire of Astor Piazzolla.
Coro Bajolese
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O Maria béla Maria -
$14.99
(cdRoots# fce-5368)
This CD continues the thirty-year career of the celebrated choir of Bajo Dora, characterized by experimental hints, aiming at an even deeper knowledge of the oral culture of the people from Canavese (the area surrounding Ivrea, Piedmont). This new work is entirely dedicated to Piedmontese ballads drawn from the Nigra collection, which are performed in the typical suggestive way of this cult folk choir conducted by Amerigo Vigliermo.
Esprit Follet
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Où Vont les Vieilles Lunes -
$14.99
(cdRoots# fce-5369)
According to Alpine legends, the name esprit follet was given to spiteful goblins that tied the chains of the cows each other, made milk crudle, and turned everything upside-down in the stables at night time. Rinaldo Doro and Sonia Cestonaro, the protagonists of this new project, are not true goblins but enjoyed themselves in messing around in the world of folk music, with a cheerful and energetic CD: waltzes, polkas, mazurkas and scottisches dating from the start of the 20th century, together with curentas and monferrinas from the Canavese, the area surrounding Ivrea, Piedmont.
Domenico Torta e I Musicanti di Riva presso Chieri
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Saré l'uss e buté fòra 'l gat! -
$14.99
(cdRoots# fce-5367)
Following over ten years of activity, here it is at last their maiden-voyage CD: the fruit of one of the most creative Italian folk group astride music and drama well seasoned with humour. Marcette, one-step, fox-trot, waltz, mazurka, polka, brando, curenta, beguine, tango, and popular tunes from the flourishing Italian tradition alternate in a most longed for CD. Leaded by histrionic Domenico "Tasché" Torta, the eight multi-instrument Musicanti are able to studio reproduce the same cheerful but keen atmosphere of their live performances.
Trigomigo
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Scuzà-ou aquì -
$14.99
(cdRoots# fce-5374)
In Varaita Valley, Southern Piedmont, many songs end with ‘scuzà-ou aquì! (excuse me!) to thank the audience for its patience. Trigomigo would also like to thank the audience for the patience awaiting for this recording. Their extensive long research, transcriptions, corrections and careful comparisons, has produced versions of traditional lyrics extremely respectful of the sources, re-dressed in the band’s personal re-arrangements. Patrick Vaillant is their special guest on a few of the tracks.
Aes Dana
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Far coasts... and lost tracks -
$14.99
(cdRoots# fce-5375)
In June 2007 a sudden and unforgiving illness took the life of Giuseppe Leopizzi, musician, composer, fine arranger as well as founder of Aes Dana in the 1980s. On the first anniversary of his death FolkClub decided to fulfill one of Giuseppe’s dreams: to reprint in digital form the first Aes Dana recording, published in 1987. The track-list is represented here in its original format, but with the addition of three unpublished tracks.
Ensemble Sinigaglia
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La crava mangia ij more -
$14.99
(cdRoots# fce-5370)
Enrico Negro, Mario Cosco, and Ignazio Viola are three skilled guitarists from Turin, already known by classical-music enthusiasts as Trio Vivaldi. But since music has no strict borders, it was not difficult for themn to trespas into the folk repertoire. Their guitars’ melodies intertwine with Paola Lombardo’s perfect voice to pay tribute to Leone Sinigaglia, the great father of the traditional Piedmontese patrimony of songs.
Picotage
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Je n'irai plus aux champs -
$14.99
(cdRoots# fce-5376)
Following their collection dedicated to Christmas carols, the band is engaged again on the repertoire of Central France. This production is clearly focussed on traditional sounds, but Picotage worked to carefully mix them up with a progressive flair, defining their own music as 'musique d’Hammond' rather than musique du monde.
Giancarlo Parisi and Katia Pesti
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Terra Celeste -
$12.99
(cdRoots# fce-terraceleste)
Another new project by Giancarlo Parisi, one of the most important Sicilian musicians in the last 20 years. Here he plays Sicilian bagpipes and soprano sax, in cooperation with the piano of another Sicilian, Ms Pesti. Deeply rooted but adamantly modern music.
Trio Pivari
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Passa ripassa -
$14.99
(cdRoots# fce-pivari)
This is the debut recording of a band devoted to the roots of Apennine popular music. This trio is composed of musicians who have been researching and performing the traditional music of the region around Modena for a long time, and now they are ready to share it with the world.
Sancto Ianne
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Mo' siente -
$14.99
(cdRoots# fce-5360)
This hard hitting ensemble from Benevento, near Naples, was a house favorite with their 2002 release Scapula. This 2005 release features special guest vocalist Faisal Taher, joining the ensemble of Gianni Principe (voice and castagnette), Alfonso Coviello (tammorre, tamburello, darbouka, percussion), Ciro Schettino (chitarra battente, mandoloncello, fiati etnici), Antonio Pasquariello (guitars), Sergio Napolitano (fisarmonica [accordion], percussion), Raffaele Tiseo (violin, bouzouki) and Massimo Amoriello (electric bass).
Mireille Ben Ensemble
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Miniatures -
$14.99
(cdRoots# fce-ben06)
The Italy-based French singer returns with another trans-Alpine musical exploration, joined by Italian guitarist Oliviero Biella and an ensemble of cornmuse (bagpipes), clarinet, violin, drums, acoustic and electric bass and musical saw. Beautiful in its simplicity of performance, with traditional songs both familiar and obscure.
Ensemble del Doppio Bordone
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La notte di Natale (ES5303 -
$14.99
(cdRoots# fce-doppio)
With its blend of ancient instruments from peasant culture (bagpipes, hurdy-gurdy, flutes) and of cultured origin (fiddle, cello and harmonium), during last ten years this band performed all over Europe, obtaining a vast positive response both from audience and critics. In December 1995, the Ensemble represented Italy in the program Comete, co-produced by various national broadcasting companies of EU, Eastern Europe and North-American countries. Its repertoire varies from alms-collecting chants, dances played during harvest time, carnival music and Christmas carols, songs sung in May and melodies of Passion.
La Furlancia
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La Furlancia -
$14.99
(cdRoots# fce-furlancia)
La Furlancia is a rather new group but its three musicians have a long experience in playing traditional music. They base their repertoire on traditional dances and songs from Liguria, but they also draw some inspiration from the music of Piedmont, Lombardy, Veneto or Emilia Romagna, all regions which share a common musical language. In the past, traditional songs and dances were strongly related to their meaning in a society which had a different organization; that is why the band decided to change something when they built up and arranged the music, in order to approach the musical tastes of today's listeners.
La Rionda
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Incantatrice (ES5313) -
$14.99
(cdRoots# fce-rionda)
This ensemble is the best known and full of history in Liguria traditional music revival. A large band with great voices (Laura Parodi and Max Manfredi) and appreciated musicians. The arrangements are the result of a particular work lasted more than 4 yearsand they are really able to let you taste Liguria and its sea traditions. Bravos! of Trad Mag during summer 2001.
Sancto Ianne
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Scapula -
$14.99
(cdRoots# fce-scapula)
Originating in the South of Italy, the band is Gianfranco Parente (guitar, accordion and vocals), Ciro Maria Schettino (guitar, violin, flute and mandoloncelle, vocals), Alfonso Coviello (tammorre [large Italian tambourine], tamburella, timpano and other percussion), and Gianni Principe (lead vocals and castenets).
Roberto Carlotti
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Il giardino di Sofia -
$14.99
(cdRoots# fce-5366)
With Gabriele Coltri, Vincenzo Caglioti, Stefano Valla e Maurizio Dehò. Musician and composer Antonello Paliotti says: Roberto Carlotti defines himself a "non-professional man of music". This is probably what makes his CD not a product to be sold, not a demo, not a promo. It is neither Northern nor Southern music; it should be given as a present, just like the famous red horn-shaped amulets or talismans; it would be better to donate it just like you donate a bit of commonsense and joyful sounds. In other words, it is not a typical fucking-damned popular-ethnic product of the music recording industry. All the "professional men" who work in this field – with Paliotti in the front row – can learn something from this CD and from Carlotti. Thanks a lot, Roberto.
Ma'aria
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Sugnari -
$14.99
(cdRoots# fce-5364)
Ma'arìa are two extraordinary female voices, set to the rhythm of percussion and one guitar. With the poetry of Valeria Cimò, taken from the fragments of real life, they make powerful songs. Ma'arìa means witchcraft... incantesimo. And in their the magical formula they use potent ingredients to make a fascinating and vigorous musical statement.
Tandarandan
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Adalgisiana -
$14.99
(cdRoots# fce-5365)
The return of Tandarandan, two years after their marvelous 'Epata, music of the seasons' and focused on music for dancing in an homage to all the old musicians who they have met along the way.
Urbalia Rurana and Maurizio Martinotti
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Territoris amables (ES5318 -
$10.99
(cdRoots# fce-urbalia)
The best band from the Pais Valencian (Spain) and the leader of the well known group La Ciapa Rusa (Piedmont/Italy), involved together in a new project.
Raffaella De Vita and Roberto Cognazzo
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Macario, Parole E Musica -
$10.99
(cdRoots# fce-macario)
Macario, Words and Music presents the comic music of Turin-born singer Macario, called 'the comic who fell from the Moon.' These are songs taken from stage revues and films from 1938-1954, performed by vocalist De Vita and pianist Cognazzo, accompanied on some songs by guitarist Silvano Biolatti.
Epinfrai
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Cercando (ES5310 -
$10.99
(cdRoots# fce-epinfrai)
Epinfrai is the project of four young musicians working on the repertoire of piffero, a sort of oboe used in the musical tradition of the northern part of Apennines, in the area called of the four counties. Starting from a deep knowledge of the development in the tradition of piffero in the last two centuries, once played with the Musa (a sort of bagpipe), then with the Italian accordion, Epinfrai is trying to give a new life to the tradition with the use of stylistic solutions taken by jazz, language that belongs to the musical training of some members of the band.
Falafel Project
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Arcobaleno -
$12.99
(cdRoots# fce-falafel)
A new ensemble born among the vineyards around Barolo and Barbaresco, led by well-known Piedmontese folk artist Silvio Orlandi. The record mingles traditional music with modern sounds, with trad concepts meeting rock and jazz.
Laura Conti and Eivador
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Nòse amor -
$12.99
(cdRoots# fce-5361)
Laura Conti & Eivadòr prsent music of Piedmont, Italy, with Maurizio Verna, a refined guitarist and arranger who gives a very personal touch to the tradional melodies of the region.
Fàbregas, Martinotti, Torregrosa, Sette
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Pau i Treva -
$12.99
(cdRoots# fce-5359)
It means 'Peace and Truce.' A thousand years after the famous medieval edict, war has become again a sad reality. Music cannot change the world, but it can surely throw little signals of peace, of social cohesion and this is the hope of this musical project, which gathers together musicians from Piedmont, Occitania, Catalunya and Pais Valencia, each one carrying his own store of personal experiences: Jordi Fabrégas, Maurizio Martinotti, Renat Sette, Toni Torregrossa, Paul James and many more!
63 Strings, feat. Manomanouche
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63 Strings -
$10.99
(cdRoots# fce-5357)
A group of Italian musicians executes a musical raid into French Gypsy Jazz territory, joined by the well known Italian Gypsy ensemble Manomanouche and American harpist Park Stcikney. Nunzio Barbieri (acoustic guitar), Dino Contenti (upright bass) and Luca Enipeo (acoustic guitar) take on the obvious (Django Reinhardt) and some less well known turns as well (Domenico Modugno, Romane).
Enzo Avitabile
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Sacro Sud -
$12.99
(cdRoots# fce-avit06)
The Neopolitan reed player returns in 2006 with a powerful new recording of sacred songs from sourthern Italy, performed in sparse, all acoustic settings that evoke wonder and passion. The ensemble is stellar and includes Luigi Lai: Launeddas; Maurizio Martinotti: Ghironda; Mario De Rosa: Mandoloncello; Giancarlo Abbatiello: Chitarra Napoletana; Carlo Avitabile: Tamburi and two vocal ensembles: Cantori Del Miserere Di Sessa and Polifonica Alphonsiana. Highly recommended.
Tendachent
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La Valle dei Saraceni -
$14.99
(cdRoots# fce-tendachent05)
Tendachënt returns in 2005 to continue their exploration of the mediterranean traditions that have mixed with their Piemonte history. Founded by Maurizio Martinotti's band (also the founder of the seminal Italian ensemble, La Ciapa Rusa), Tendachent is one of the foremost modern folk ensembles in Italy today, and with this recording, the legend grows. If you like folk-rock and roots-folk in all its stripes, this one is recommended.
La Moresca Antica
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Marinaresca -
$12.99
(cdRoots# fce-moresca00)
Traditional Italian music from the maritime traditions, performed by one of the most respected revivalist bands in Lombardy. This CD was originally released in 2000, and is reissued in 2006.
Quartetto Tamborini
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Ël giardin dl'amor -
$12.99
(cdRoots# fce-tamb06)
This Italian folk-string quartet is back with their 2006 recording. Already appreciated for their interpretation of music that spans classical and folk traditions, the ensemble dedicates this latest disc to some Piedmontese composers of the XIX and XX Centuries.
Oliviero Biella
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Accade -
$12.99
(cdRoots# fce-accade)
After working with ensembles like Magam, Bandalpina, and Compagnia Strumentale Tre Violini, this guitarist from Lombardy, Italy has finally created his first starring role recording, with new song writing and accompanied by guests like Gabriele Coltri and Alfredo Savoldelli. Art music meets folk roots in an elegent ensemble's interpretation of these unusual songs. Fans of Gabriel Yacoub will find kinship in spirit.
Giangilberto Monti
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La belle epoque della Banda Bonnot (2 CDs) -
$12.99
(cdRoots# fce-monti)
Twenty songs by Boris Vian, most of them unpublished, adapted in Italian and performed by this renowned Milanese song-writer and singer. The aim is to re-propose the story of the French anarchical outlaw Jules Bonnot. and this double CD follows the steps of the radio play written by Monti himself, produced by the Swiss Italian Radio. It was the winner of the Prix Suisse 2004 from Swiss national radio, in the fiction section.
Asteriskos
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Asino siculo -
$12.99
(cdRoots# fce-asterisko2)
The next chapter in the adventure started in 2002, by three great Sicilian musicians. Giancarlo Parisi, Massimo Laguardia and Tanino Lazzaro prove they have plenty of stories to tell, and offer this mature, refined album filled with excellent songwriting alongside some traditional tunes, all interpreted with great skill and musicianship, played out on zampogna a paro cromatica (bagpipe), flute, tammorra, percussion, fisarmonica (accordion) and voices.
Stefano Valla, Attilio Rocca, Ettore Losini
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Tilion -
$12.99
(cdRoots# fce-tilion)
An uncommon birthday present for a very uncommon person: Attilio Rocca is known as 'Tilion,' one of the fathers and keepers of the folk tradition in the area of the Four Provinces. Young at the age of 70, Tilion has his etrenal friends gather around to celebrate his life with a glass of Gutturnio, a salami of Varzi and plenty of good music to accompany his accordion.
La Lionetta
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Arzan -
$14.99
(cdRoots# fce-lionetta2)
La Lionetta, a band that mirrors the multiethnic nature of their home in Turin, returns after many years with another roaring, rousing mixture of Italian folk (on accordion, bagpipes, bouzouki and more) and trans-European brass band music.
la Moresca antica
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Li Turchi alla Marina -
$14.99
(cdRoots# fce-moresca-marina)
antiche musiche italiane della tradizione marinara 2: the second collection of songs from the shores of Italy by this noted ancient music ensemble.
Compagnons Roulants
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Jan Senso Terro (ES5304 -
$temp out of stock-15.99
(cdRoots# fce-compagnons)
The group aims at the research and diffusion through a modern reinterpretation, of the kinds of music belonging to peasant and mountain culture of Piedmont, with particular attention to Occitania territory extending both in southern France and Piedmont. The repertoire includes songs and dances played with traditional instruments such as violin, percussion, hurdy-gurdy and bagpipes. Elegant minimalist arrangements and an extraordinary solo female voice make Compagnons Roulants an extremely innovative and fascinating proposal.
Din Delon
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La Rosa e la Ramella (ES5322) -
$14.99
(cdRoots# fce-dindelon)
The debut of one this interesting ensemble from Lombardy, led by a well-known champion of this music, Andrea Capezzuoli. The evident passion for tradition is the driving force in this ensemble of voices, organetto (accordion), musette, clarinet, bagpipes and ghironda (hurdy-gurdy).
Dona Bela
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Dona Bela (ES5312 -
$12.99
(cdRoots# fce-donabela)
Renat Sette, the voice of Provence, with an acoustic band of four Italian musicians, comparing the repertoires of Piedmont and Provence. Last June this CD received the Bravos! from the french Folk magazine Trad Mag. Many concerts in Italy and France show there is a wide interest on this work, whose musicians are probably the main characters in folk music of their Regions.
Paul James Mark Hawkins
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Horse (ES5314 -
$14.99
(cdRoots# fce-horse)
The leader of Blowzabella in his first solo record. This worderful bagpiper is always a leader, and this venture into modern sounds opens new horizons in folk music. With Sheila Chandra, Carlos Beceiro and many other friends...
Myriam Lattanzio
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Rosa rabbia e sangue -
$14.99
(cdRoots# fce-lattanzio)
This young Neopolitan singer presents her first complete recording, together with seven musicians (on guitar, bouzuki, bass guitar, accordion, percussion, sax and cello) in a presentation of traditional and original songs
Laura Conti and Ombra Gaja
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A l'Arbat del Sol (ES5316) -
$14.99
(cdRoots# fce-lconti)
One of the most interesting among the emerging folk music bands from Piedmont, with Laura Conti's wornderful voice. It's a long time that her voice is always on stage with Paolo Conte, Giorgio Gaslini and other famous italian artists. Together with Ombra Gaja she choses to investigate the piedmontese traditional music repertoire, and the result is here for your ears!
La Lionetta
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Ottoni and settimini (ES5306 -
$14.99
(cdRoots# fce-lionetta)
La Lionetta has long been one of the most popular and appreciated among the Italian folk -revival bands, as well as the less orthodox. Their first album, Danze e ballate dell'area celtica italiana published in 1978, was warmly welcome both by critics and public. A couple of years after their second work Il gioco del diavolo, the band reduced its activity until it stopped. La Lionetta was formed again in 1995 starting anew their repertoire which is characterized on one hand by autonomous composition of music and texts and on the other hand by strengthen and unconventional attitude towards tracks.
Le Picotage
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Noel nouveau est venu (ES5311 -
$14.99
(cdRoots# fce-picotage)
Christmas songs and tunes from the Centre of France, played on hurdy gurdy, bagpipes, keyboards, plus a fantastic female voice. The Christmas Carols were chosen among the dozen of popular songs that are particulary abundant in the Centre of France: some of these songs are still sung in certain churches in the Limousin region. The legendary complex to which the lyrics make reference are taken mainly from the Apocryphal Evangiles.
Betti Zambruno and Tendachent
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Al lung de la riviera -
$14.99
(cdRoots# fce-riviera)
A collaboration between Betti Zambruno and the band that in 1997 inherited the mantle (and some of the musicians) of La Ciapa Rusa, the well-known group Zambruno sang with in the '80s. Zambruno and ensemble play the repertoire of Leone Sinigaglia, one of the fathers of traditional Piedmontese music.
Carmelo Salemi
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Hybla (ES5320) -
$14.99
(cdRoots# fce-salemi)
The Mediterranean music comes to its highest level in this debut album for a virtuous player of friscaletto, a particular kind of flute typical of the sicilian tradition. Guitars and many percussions provide the arrangements of this hot CD, giving more than an eye to the Arabian sound. Listen!
Quartetto Tamborini
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Quartettino Giocoso (ES5307 -
$14.99
(cdRoots# fce-tamborini)
This work collects compositions by the so-called minor authors of the cultivated music of the Eighteenth century in Piedmont. Indeed, these composers played roles which were not minor in the Piedmontese music panorama, their compositions being played in the major theatres and concert halls all over Northern Italy. Drawing from this repertoire, the band re-proposes in a very original way the compositions transcribed for the most classic among the classic kinds of ensemble: the string quartet. Quartetto Tamborini is born from an idea by Bruno Raiteri, violinist of La Ciapa Rusa.
Cororchestra Cantarchevai
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Nadàl Encara -
$temp out of stock-17.99
(cdRoots# fce-cornadal)
A collection of Christmas carols from Italy and elsewhere, performed in a unique, sparse, modern folk style, an almost neo-field-recording atmosphere.
Tendachënt
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Arnèis -
$temp out of stock-17.99
(cdRoots# fce-5383)
The 2009 release by a great Piemontese group. Four years after the wonderful "La Valle dei Saraceni" we finally get a new recording by the band led by Maurizio Martinotti. A brand new sound, totally acoustic sound is the hallmark of this work, still maintaining the old power in brilliant new arrangements on 14 new studio tracks, and five bonus tracks recorded live during their 2009 summer tour. Listen
La Lionetta
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Ballate 1978-1996 -
$temp out of stock-16.99
(cdRoots# fce-lionetta04)
A compilation of early recordings by one of Italy's most interesting new-roots ensembles.
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